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Can we use NEG models to predict migration flows? : an example of CEE accession countries

Kancs, D'Artis - 2005

In this paper we develop an analytically solvable and structurally estimable economic geography model and apply it to predict migration flows for the period following the CEE’s integration with the EU. The main innovation of our approach is that it endogenises both explanatory variables and...

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The economic geography of labour migration: Competition, competitiveness and development

Kancs, D'Artis - 2010 - Revised

The present paper studies labour migration in the enlarged EU. Adopting the Krugman’s framework of the New Economic Geography, we are able to study both the determinants of labour migration, such as market potential, wages, cost of living on one hand, and labour migration on the other hand...

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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition

Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009

core may pay subsidies that are high enough to prevent a relocation of industry. -- Agglomeration ; asymmetric regions …

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Inefficient Lock-In and Subsidy Competition

Borck, Rainald - 2009

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...

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Spatial frictions

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2013

The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...

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Spatial frictions

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2014

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Spatial Frictions

Behrens, Kristian - 2013

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Silk, Regional Rivalry, and the Impact of the Port Openings in Nineteenth Century Japan

Atsumi, Toshihiro - 2009

The centre of economic activities in Japan was once in western Japan. Since the mid-nineteenth century, however, economic activities within Japan have been continuously shifting towards the east side of the country including Tokyo. Conventional wisdom associates the end of the Tokugawa feudal...

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The Productivity Advantages of Large Cities : Distinguishing Agglomeration from Firm Selection

Combes, Pierre-Philippe - 2012

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

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Strategic location behaviour : temporal and spatial proximity in situation of agglomeration effects

Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - 1996

We address the question of competition within the location choices of firms. In a framework of agglomeration effects … agglomeration economics models which generally provide extreme results of mono-location. The Stackelberg equilibria described here … context of agglomeration economies. …

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